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American Tower Corporation is a wireless and broadcast communications infrastructure company with a portfolio of over 22,800 communications sites, including wireless communications towers, broadcast communications towers and distributed antenna systems. Its portfolio of wireless and broadcast tower sites consists of towers that the Company owns and towers that it operates pursuant to long-term lease arrangements, including, as of December 31, 2007, approximately 19,500 tower sites in the United States and approximately 3,200 in Mexico and Brazil. The Company’s portfolio also includes approximately 150 in-building distributed antenna systems that it operates in malls and casino/hotel resorts in the United States. In addition to the communications sites in its portfolio, American Tower Corporation manages rooftop and tower sites for third parties in the United States, Mexico and Brazil. The Company operates in two segments: rental and management, and network development services.(Source: 10-K)